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http://honolulu.craigslist.org/big/mcy/3835403703.html
You could probably tell em your story and situation and give a decent down and make payments or just offer 3-400 bucks if no then ask for payment option. If you there is a WILL...There is a WAY...
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Originally posted by Wuzzerdad
I would have given this guy a scooter for his mother if he would have just answered some questions honestly.
I started out with nothing and I still have most of it.
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My mom is on Evercare. It is a free healthcare that barely covers her medications. I am not a guy I am a girl!
I have not answered because I was busy assisting my mother. You don't have to be so rude!
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Often these things have to start with the doctor writing something on a piece of paper verifying that your mom needs a scooter to get around. Ok, so my suggestion is to take her back to the doctor- specifically for an appointment "to assess her mobility" or lack thereof. Just tell the receptionist, "my mom cant walk and I want to find out why" or whatever. Then when you get to see the doctor. Try to get the doctor to write down on prescription pad, or fill something out on a computer, some type of prescription or note, verifying that you mom needs the scooter. Cry or otherwise make it known that it is "really essential that your mom maintain her mobility". Once you get the medical documentation of a "need" then hopefully, you can get some insurance plan or charity to provide the scooter. GL!
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Just because someone comes to Punaweb with a request for help does not give us the right to start demanding personal information about their medical coverage. Either help, or don't, but jumping all over someone because they don't "come clean" by specifying exactly which government aid program their mother is on is uncalled for. Shoresresident asked for help for her mother, she doesn't really have the right to publicly spell out her mother's confidential medical and financial information to the entire cyberspace because some busybodies who aren't actually offering any real help think they have the right to know.
People can and do fall into cracks in the system where their need is in place long before the help comes through. Some programs require long wait times for durable medical equipment to make certain it is a permanent need. I have known people who had to wait for 2 years to receive durable medical equipment like motorized scooters, or who were initially denied, because their doctor was unfamiliar with the exact wording needed on the paperwork. For a person with loss of mobility that wait time can mean they become cut off from the outside world.
Shoresresident asked for a specific type of help for her mother and people started calling her names. Help if you can, or don't if you can't, but the name calling is uncalled for. It isn't like Hawaii has some thriving market for hot motorized scooters that scam artists are using to get rich. Government agencies ask for documentation, some charities and nonprofits do too, but to demand that that sort of documentation be provided on a public website when a request for help was made is absurd. If you really have a scooter to offer, then that sort of proof could be asked for privately before you turn over the scooter, but as far as all of us just reading Punaweb, it really isn't our business what coverage this woman's mother has.
How about if people just try to be a little nicer to one another, instead of jumping into attack mode at the drop of a hat. People on this forum have a long history of generously helping one another, shoresresident put her mother's need out there in hopes someone might have a scooter gathering dust, some people kindly offered advice on where she might find one, that was probably what she expected. Instead, she also got insulted, denigrated, and basically accused of lying because she didn't publicly post her mother's confidential information. Not the sort of respect for others that used to make Punaweb stand out as a beacon of sanity in the swamps of the internet. I think this sort of behavior is why so many of the old stalwarts here have faded away over the last year, who wants to hang out with people who treat other people like that?
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I also thank you Carol. Wuzzerdad does not need to be an interrogator.
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I also found the tone of some commenters here to be unnecessarily rude and insulting, but didn't weigh in for fear of just exacerbating the situation. Hats off to Carol for so eloquently stating what many of us were thinking.
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I don't know.... If my mother needed something for her quality of life and it could be purchased for $400, I'd find the money somehow instead of begging from strangers.
There have to be some sort of disability advocates that would know where help could be obtained.
Personally, I have no way of assessing whether someone begging for money on the internet really does need help, or if they are just a scam artist, playing on sympathy or using an ill relative as a begging tool.
Charity is not a bad thing, Im not sure the same can be said about medicare/medicaid and the scam artists that run those as well as the rest of our government. Why would someone assume ill will of someone asking for charity, especially in these times? If you have nothing to give, move along.
